Don't own Legend of Korra. Nor the plotline for Anastasia.

Kailee awoke in the strange penthouse location that the two pro benders resided at and legitimately panicked. Mako was at her side quickly, and she noticed how his eyes were a strange color that all firebenders had. She also noticed that the larger one, the earthbender, was asleep in a different bed a way off.

"Relax. I'm Mako, and that's Bolin. We found you passed out. Are you alright?" the firebender asked, and Kailee cringed. "Hey, like I said, relax. We won't hurt you, we're not like the equalists, we're trying to fight against them so we won't be using their tactics anytime soon."

Kailee looked down with tears in her eyes. She wanted to go home, she wanted to find a family, not a pro bender! She knew that most people would have killed for her privilege that she had at that moment, but she couldn't care less. All she wanted was her home, her family, a place to belong when she wasn't a bender.

"You not a bender are you?" Mako asked, and she shook her head. "Are you an equalists?"

Her eyes widened and she shook her head and made rude and obscene gestures with her hands, trying to pantomime that she hated them.

"Hm? Oh, you can't talk," he realized, and she nodded. "Did the equalists do that to you?"

She nodded, pantomiming walking, punching one hand with the other, and then gently tapping her head where she'd been hurt and wincing when she touched the sore spot.

"Okay, um…. Walking, a fight, and they hit your head?" Mako guessed, and Kailee stared at him before flopping back onto her blankets. "Come on, you've got to give me better clues than that."

Kailee sighed through her nose before making a no gesture and repeating the signs, this time making an invisible metal rod with her hands and then ramming said rod onto Mako's head.

"Oh, oh. They hit you on the head with one of their electric rods because you wouldn't join them," he said at last, and she nodded. "Are you hurt? Where did they hit you?"

She made a circle over the area that they'd hit, and Mako began prodding gently. Kailee winced and felt her eyes fill with tears as he gently pressed against the extremely sore, raw, and somewhat bloody location on her head.

"That feels and looks like it hurt," he scowled. "Look, I'll head somewhere to get a healer. I know a really good friend who was taught by Master Katara herself."

Kailee put her hands on her head, feeling her head begin to pound madly at the mention of Katara. It felt familiar to her, like it belonged to be heard in her ears, in her life, her existence. But at the same time it hurt so much that she just wanted all the pain to go away. She wanted everything to go away until she could just find her family. She closed her eyes and tried to stop the pain, but felt nothing save it for a while.

"Is this her?" she heard a female say softly as the pain finally faded somewhat.

"Yeah, that's her," Mako and Bolin said in unison.

"She can't talk, can't write, we're stuck with miming, and whenever I mentioned your teacher, she clutched her head as if she was in pain," Mako continued. "Any ideas, Korra?"

"No, none," the waterbender said kneeling down closer to the pro benders' charge. "Where did she mime that she was hit, Mako?"

"Right around here," he said gently circling the side of her head.

There was a slight buzzing and Kailee could feel the pain dimming inside her skull, as though something was returning to her. In the buzzing, she could have sworn she heard the newcomer ask more questions, but it was growing distant. But as the current world grew distant, she managed to find a place that was very large and open.

But to her shock, there was a set of metal gates with a large brick wall that loomed in front of what she could have sworn was a public building. There were shadows beyond the gate, but one approached and stepped towards her. The shadow put their arms through the gate and began healing her head.

"Who are you?" she asked in the dream, and the shadow simply smiled an elder's smile.

There was no answer, only the healing feel of water on her skull, and as the water began healing, she could faintly, ever so faintly, hear a hum of voices. People were sparring with different elements, and she was surrounded by people of all ages now. To her shock, she was now inside the gates.

She put a hand to the face of the one who was healing her to find it wrinkled, yet very soft and smiling as though they'd known each other for a long time. The woman set her down, and Kailee saw the others rush away and the shadow place a necklace on her as they fled as well as a music box in her hands.

But as Kailee herself fled from the unknown force that was attacking her, she dropped the music box that was precious to her for some strange reason. She began hearing a slight and very small tinkling tune, and then a wave of pain just before she collapsed onto the ground. Something was familiar about that feeling, something had caused that pain to happen to her before then, but what?

She felt herself being jerked into an infant's body and saw a strange dark figure, one in a mask that she now recognized as this "Amon" person from the posters. With a jolt of horror, she couldn't keep in the scream of terror.

…

Meanwhile, as Kailee was seeing nothing around her in reality, Bolin, Mako, and Korra were looking at her worriedly as her eyes became more and more dilated.

"Uh, Korra, is that normal?" Bolin asked finally.

"No. that means that her eyes are trying to let in light," the Avatar said confused as she continued to heal the young nonbender.

The nonbender arched her back and gripped the blankets below her in pain. The Fire Ferret group frowned at this, and Mako took a step towards Kailee just before she let out a bloodcurdling scream of terror. In a frenzy, she rammed Korra's arm, stopping the waterbending, and curled up on her side and put her hands on her head tightly to protect herself.

"Guys, I think we messed up," Bolin said staring at her.

"Yeah, no kidding, Bo," Mako said darkly as he stared at the form of the broken nonbender. "I don't think that her past is a pretty one. Something tells me it's darker than all of ours put together."

"Except the past Avatars, you mean," Korra added, and the two boys nodded. "Come on, let's get her to Tenzin. Maybe he'll know what to do."

But Kailee cringed and curled up tighter at the mention of her Uncle's name in pain. The names from the past, the names that were from something that she couldn't remember, they hurt her greatly. Team Avatar noticed this and it suddenly clicked to them that this girl somehow knew Tenzin in the past that was haunting and killing her slowly.

*gasp* They're starting to piece things together! But Kailee won't be... normal... things will be different in this than they were in Anastasia.

Please review, and a thank you to my sole reviewer thus far. Tarala will be explained shortly. I'll give you guys three guesses and a dozen bending scrolls (virtually of course) if you can guess what I based her name off of.